Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"commedia dell’arte"”.
-
Beginner's Mind: Teaching From a Position of Not Knowing
… of 2009 my drama students asked me to teach Commedia dell’Arte during the upcoming school year. I did have a strong knowledge of the subject but I decided to approach the project with a beginner’s mind and take a risk teaching a form of theatre I knew little about. Over the course of the …
-
Beginner's Mind: Teaching From a Position of Not Knowing
… of 2009 my drama students asked me to teach Commedia dell’Arte during the upcoming school year. I did have a strong knowledge of the subject but I decided to approach the project with a beginner’s mind and take a risk teaching a form of theatre I knew little about. Over the course of the …
-
A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
… interpretation and practical explorations of Commedia dell’Arte’s legacy and continuing relevance to contemporary performance. An original contribution to contemporary studies on the Commedia dell’Arte, this research highlights the striking similarities between Commedia’s core principles and …
-
"Pseudo-wits and polished frauds" : directing Molière's The Learned Ladies
… was to examine the text through the lens of the commedia dell’arte and its influence on the playwright’s characters and dramaturgy, as well as Molière's feminism. In the rehearsal hall, my focus was on actor creation and “play.” Chapter 1 summarizes my pre-production research, and includes …
-
Riotous Reform, Staging Complaint, 1561–1595
… with novelty. The evanescent energy of Italian commedia dell’arte, as a continental form of playing, was harnessed for its entertainment value, its adaptability, and its malleability in a climate of growing demand and increasing regulation. Modish content and form were mediated through the …
-
The aestheticization of ugliness : the Pulcinella narrative in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Villa Zianigo
… case study. The frescos foreground Pulcinella, a Commedia dell’arte theatrical character known for his ugly appearance— hunchback, hooked nose, and protruding belly— and actions on stage. In this series, the artist displaces the character from the stage and onto the walls of a quaint villa, in …
-
Cervantes’s La entretenida: Translation, Performance and a Digital Edition
… with Plautus, the rhetorical tradition, the commedia dell’arte, jazz, storytelling, and metatheatre. Chapter 2 challenges the widely held view that La entretenida is a parody of the comedia nueva, and looks at the way in which Cervantes engaged with dramatic theory, and in particular with the …
-
‘The Grin upon the Deathshead’: A Study of Satire in 1920s British Art.
… the popular, traditional humour of the commedia dell’arte into a modernist context. The Sitwell trio are at once the butt of the satire these works contain, while also meting out satirical ripostes in their turn, engendering a momentum in this neglected genre that appears to me …
-
Die Macht der Kammerzofe
… welche auf die Figur der Colombina der Commedia dell’arte zurückzuführen ist. Wie integriert Lessing diese Dienerinnenfigur des Théâtre italien in seine frühen Komödien, die im Spannungsfeld der Komödientheorie Gottscheds und dem aufkommenden rührenden Lustspiel Gellerts geschrieben …
-
The Lutheran hymn "Ein' Feste Burg" in Claude Debussy's Cello Sonata (1915): motivic variation and structure
… popular explanation of the sonata involves the commedia dell’arte story of Pierrot Angry at the Moon, but there is no solid evidence for the claim, only rumors. Debussy also did not write in isolation from the artistic community. Between the Prussian War and World War I certain groups sought to …